Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21175, Jeremiah Gatchell, Mass. Sea Service Privateer War 1812

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass. Sea Service      Gatchell, Jeremiah      No. 21,175- or Gatchall                      B.L. Mt. 7071-160-55- Privateer War 1812      Gatchel, Elizabeth CONTENTS
Privateer War 1812.
CONTENTS

State of Illinois
Received of the Bank of the Republic
John D. Rockefeller
the sum of Five Hundred Dollars
Certificate of Payment issued the
1st day of March 1892
and countersigned
J. C. Huntington
William H. Taft
John D. Rockefeller
Witness my hand at New York
March 1, 1892 Page 52

Robert Smith died November 18th 1888 at the age of 72 years
Seaman on board the "Frederick" Rev. war seaman Revolutionary War
Ref. Feb 48-200 4553
160 ac's Sept 27/55
Kater Hodges
Vol. 5. 2. — 8
Damar Alongville P. S.

State of Massachusetts, } ss. County of Worcester . . . }
On this sixth Day of December, A. D. 1843, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate in and for said County of Worcester, Elizabeth Gatchell, a resident of Blackstone in said County, aged nearly seventy-four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, and from the best of her knowledge and belief, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Jeremiah Gatchell; that her said late husband and herself were born and brought up in Marblehead, in the County of Essex & State aforesaid, and resided there during the Revolutionary War; that while so residing there her said husband entered the Naval Service of the said State of Massachusetts - as a seaman and volunteer - sometime in the commencement of the year 1777, and served as near as she can recollect from what he used to state of his Revolutionary Service - a number of cruises on board the State Brig Freedom , John Clowden Esq. commander - throughout the greater part of said year.
She further declares, that her said husband was in much other service in the Navy in the said War, and she has reason to believe he served in one or more of the following named vessels, to wit, the Brigs Hazard , Massachusetts or Tyrannicide ; but she is unable to state with any good degree of certainty the particulars of said service - though she recollects he was made a prisoner of war which attached to said service and passed into the service of the enemy and there kept for several years before the war ended, - and she begs to refer to any record of the War Department in confirmation of said service and the particulars of it, - she having already applied to the Office of the Secretary of this Commonwealth without finding any other record of said service than the annexed certificate will show.
She further declares, that the chief reason why she has not presented her claim to the benefit of said law at an earlier date, lies in the fact of her residing a long distance from her native town, - to which she had to have recourse for the purpose of obtaining the necessary proof of her marriage and some of the details of this her Declaration.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Jeremiah Gatchell on the thirty-first day of May, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-nine; that her husband the aforesaid Jeremiah Gatchell sickened and died while he belonged to the Privateer Brig

Alfred, of Salem in the late war with Great Britain - on the fourth day of December, A. D. 1813: that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated - as will appear by the proof hereto annexed.
Elizabeth her X Gatchell mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written -
Before me, Wm M. Branton { Judge of said Probate Court.

Extract from the Records of Marriages in the Town of Marblehead County of Essex & State of Massachusetts.
Seventeen hundred Eighty nine May Thirty first.
Mr Jeremiah Gatchel & Miss Elisabeth Gifford both of this Town
I certify that the above is a true extract from the Records of with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible letters & figures as follows, viz.
1789 May 31
Rich d Homan
I Richard Homan above named, depose & say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town of Marblehead County & State aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the Record with the exception above named as certified by me.
Rich d Homan Clerk of the Town of Marblehead.
Essex ss.
Marblehead October 19 th 1843.
Then personally appeared Richard Homan above named & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me, James Gregory, S. of the Peace.

State of Rhode Island COUNTY OF Providence
ss.
On this ninth day of April , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five , personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Gatchell aged Eighty six years, a resident of Olneyville in the State of Rhode Island who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jeremiah Gatchell deceased, who was a Seaman , on board the " Freedom " of Marblehead, Mass. in the Company commanded by Captain in the service of the United States in the Regiment of  commanded by  in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th of June, 1812, of the Revolution
that her said husband at on or about the day of , A. D. 18 , for the term of and continued in actual service in said war for the term of Six Months and was honorably discharged at on the day of , A. D. 18 ; but that, to the best of her knowledge and belief, her husband never received any written or printed discharge,
She further states that she was married to the said Jeremiah Gatchell in Marblehead Mass , on the thirty first day of May A. D. 1889, by one Minister , a Minister , and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Gifford : that her said husband died at Sea, on board of ship Alfred , on the day of December A. D. 18 13 , and that she is now a widow, Evidence of all the above having been furnished in the application of the said Elizabeth Gatchell for a pension under the act of 4th of March A.D. 1848, and now on file in the proper Office in Washington D.C. reference thereto being had - The said Elizabeth Gatchell being now a pensioner of the United States
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855," and prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to Robert Wilson, Olneyville R.I.  James Gatchell & Son, of Marblehead, Mass. ; and declares that she has not received a Bounty Land Warrant under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Witness to the mark of Elizabeth Gatchell
Melissa Wade
Mrs. Barbara Wade
her Elizabeth X Gatchell mark

We Melissa Wade and Barbary Wade residents of Olneyville
State of Rhode Island } County of Providence } 83.
I Elizabeth Garchell of Olneyville in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island do testify and say that I do not at this time know of any persons or person living who knew my husband the late Jeremiah Gatchell - he having died about forty one years since and that it is impossible for me to have the Certificate of his identity and decease properly filled. And I further say that all the testimony filed in my application for a pension under the Act of 4 th of March 1848 now on file in the pension office in Washington D.C. is respectfully offered as further evidence in the above case.
Witness to the Mark of Elizabeth Garchell Melissa Wade Edwin C. Sable
Elizabeth her   Garchell mark
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this Ninth day of April A.D. 1855
Robert Wilson Justice of the Peace

THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
CLERK'S OFFICE, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
PROVIDENCE, April 9 th A. D., 1855
I, Amasa S. Westcott
Clerk of the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS of said State, within and for the County of Providence:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Robert Wilson is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Johnston in said County
duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written.
Amasa S. Westcott Clerk.

We Melissa Wade and Barbary Wade residents of Olneyville in the State of Rhode Island upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Gatchell in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Melissa Wade
Mrs Barbary Wade
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.
Robert Wilson
Justice of the Peace.
State of
Rhode Island, Providence
County.
We, Melissa Wade and Barbary Wade having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew Elizabeth Gatchell , who was a _____ in the war of _____ whose widow now applies for bounty land; that we knew him for more than years before his death, which occurred at _____ about years ago; that we know that he died about that time, because
that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she is now unmarried, and that we are disinterested.
Melissa Wade
Barbary Wade
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this of April A. D. 1855
day
Robert Wilson
Justice of the Peace.
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of _____ and _____ of the said County and State,
whom I know to be credible persons, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the foregoing application; that Elizabeth Gatchell the applicant who was a seaman in the foregoing declaration is now unmarried, and that she is the widow of the Gatchell who was a seaman in the Revolution and that the said Jeremiah Gatchell died.
TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, this day of April 1855
Justice of the Peace.

aw G Fort Monroe, Va.,
Oct. 28, 1895.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:-
Will you please be so kind as to inform me if the name of Jeremiah Gatchell , of Marblehead, Mass. or his widow, appears in the list of pensioners of the Revolution or the War of 1812; and if so what the reason was for granting the pension.
I ask the information simply to help in supplying facts for a family history.
And will you also give me the name and birth-place of any Gatchell or Getchell who may have been pensioners of the above said wars.
Very respectfully yours,
Geoff Gatchell
1st. Lieut. Bn. U.S. Art'y RECEIVED OCT 31 1895

Nov 11 96 Recd from Elizabeth Fort Monroe Va J.W.D
21-175 Rey WIDOW, &c.
pend
File No. 4175 Elizabeth Gatchell wife of Jemimah Gatchell Seaman Rev. w.
Act Feb. 2 d 188
Index: Vol 24 Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6117 Massachusetts
Elizabeth Gatchell, widow of Jeremiah Gatchell who was a Seaman in the Rev War
2 Certs: 1838 5 1843 3 rep.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Sep r 1844, and sent to James Gregory Marblehead Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 30

8719.
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Fatchell widow of Jeremiah Fatchell
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 4 Dec 1813 of in the State of Mass a who was a Seaman in the commanded by Captain of the the Rev War line for 6 mos. in
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass a at the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Septm 1834 and sent to James Gregory, Marblehead Mass
Total amount, $120.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. L. Swann Clerk, Book 20 Vol. 1 Page 59

No. 39600
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 11, 1855
Jeremiah Gatchell Rev. War
Warrant 7071-160-5-5
Claimant Olneyville R. I.

7071
S Mrs. A. A. A.

Winsted R.I. Sept 16, 1884 To the Commissioner of Pensions
De Sir
Enclosed is the request of Mrs Elizabeth Gatchell and accompanying affidavits to have her pension payable at the Pension agency in the City of Providence as she now resides in Olneyville distant about two miles from the City of Providence it will be much more convenient for her to have her pension paid there than at Boston, where it has heretofore been paid. If there is any informality in the papers or any thing else required of her then is contained in the affidavits please let me know.
Respectfully Yours &c Robert Wilson
Please direct. "Olneyville, R.I."
The pension for Sept 1884 has not been drawn - I should like to have it payable in Providence if convenient R.M.

10683-
8744
Elizabeth Gatchell Maw of Jeremiah Maw
Act 7 July 1838
No 6425
Act 1843
2 30 1 59
adm d 6 mo. Seaman $24
adm d March 1843.
6 mo., Seaman
$24
James Gregory Marblehead, Massachusetts

Marblehead, February 22 d 1844.
Honored Sir, —
I have the Honor to forward to your Office herewith a (Declaration of Elizabeth Gatchell, of Blackstone in this State, and the widow of Jeremiah Gatchell (both formerly of Marblehead) made with the view of claiming the benefit of the law of July 7 th , 1838.
It will be seen that she sets forth in her (Declaration) the reason why she has not before been able to present her claim to the benefit of said law.
I am, with very great respect, Your Honors' humble servt. James Gregory
James L. Edwards Esqr Commission of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Paid
6117
PAID
10
Eliza
To the Pension Office Washington D. C.

Waxbridge Feby. 27. 1849
To the Commissioner of Pensions: Sir,
I inclose herewith the Declaration of Elizabeth Cutchell, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Pension Act, of Feb 2. 1848.
Please transmit the amount which may be due her, to me, at this place. — I am very respectfully Your Obedt Servt L C Boynton

Army Pension Agency Mass - Dist Boston 21 September 1854
Sir
In answer to your inquiry of the 19 th inst I have to inform you that
Elizabeth Gatchell, widow of Jeremiah a pensioner now on the roll of this Agency under act 2 February 1848, at 24 dollars per annum has been paid to 4 March - 1854.
Reply
J. G. Barnes Army Pension Agents J. G. Barnes
Hon W m Wells Comm d of Pensions

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ss. Worcester COUNTY,
On this twenty second day of February 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Elizabeth Gatchell a resident of Northbridge in the county of Worcester aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of
Jeremiah Gatchell who was a resident of Marblehead in the County of Essex and who was a seaman in the War of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of twenty four dollars and cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Attest, Oliver W. Claplin Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,
Elizabeth Gatchell her mark [seal]
In presence of Oliver W. Claplin
Before me, L C Boynton Justice of the Peace.
I Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares.
L C Boynton Justice of the Peace.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ss. Worcester COUNTY,
I, Charles W. Hartshorn Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Lucien E. Boynton is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this twenty fourth day of February 1849.
Chas. W. Hartshorn CLERK.

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Providence County ss
On this Fifteenth day of September A.D. 1854 Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Providence. Personally appeared Elizabeth Gatchell who on her oath declares that she is the same person to whom a pension was granted on the 28 th day of March 1849. She being the widow of Jeremiah Gatchell who was a Seaman in the Revolutionary War. and that the sum of Twenty five Dollars per Annum is payable to said Elizabeth Gatchell by Franklin Haven Esq r Agent for paying pensioners in the agency of Massachusetts, all which will appear by reference to the Roll of Pensioners. Records in the Pension Office under Act February 2 d . 1848. Page 52. Vol. 2. And Whereas at the time of the granting of said pension and until within the last six months the said Elizabeth Gatchell was an inhabitant of the State of Massachusetts and that she is now and intends to be an inhabitant of the State of Rhode Island, and for her convenience of receiving the pension aforesaid she requests that the same may be made payable at the agency in the City of Providence. The following are her reasons for removing from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. To be with and reside with her Daughter who now resides at Olneyville in the County of Providence & State of Rhode Island.
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid. Elizabeth X Gatchell
In presence of Nathaniel Wade } Sworn and subscribed to before me the Nathaniel Wade } day and year aforesaid
Nathaniel Wade Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Providence ss. Johnston Sept 15. 1854
I Saban C Mace of Johnston in the County and State aforesaid of lawful age depose and say that I am now and have been for the last twenty years personally acquainted with Elizabeth Gatchell the person who made oath to the annexed application for transfer, and that she is the identical person described in said affidavit Saban C Mace
Providence County ss In Johnston Sept 15. 1854 that the above affidavit was sworn & subscribed to before me and I further certify that the said Saban C Mace is a credible witness
Robert Wilson Justice of the Peace
THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
CLERK'S OFFICE, SUPREME COURT, PROVIDENCE, September 15 th A. D., 1854
I, Thomas S. Anthony
Clerk of the SUPREME COURT of said State, within and for the County of Providence:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Robert Wilson before whom the foregoing affidavits were made & who has thereto affixed his name was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace within & for said County duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledg- ment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written.
Thomas S. Anthony Clerk.

10485 Elizabeth Goldsmith

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston December 4 th 1843
I hereby Certify , That at the date of the annexed attestations Saml M. Barton was judge of Probate, and Abel Wilder was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester, and that James Gregory is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Sam. A. Bowers
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Andrew Tucker of Smithfield in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations on oath do testify and declare, I was acquainted with Elizabeth Gatchell and her Husband Jeremiah Gatchell her husband when they were married. This was in the year A.D. 1790 according to the best of my recollection. Her name previous to her marriage with the said Jeremiah was Elizabeth Gifford. I was well acquainted with her since her marriage with the said Jeremiah and also since the death of her said husband. He died according to the best of my recollection late in the year A.D. 1813. In the year A.D. 1814 Elizabeth Gatchell moved with her family into the Village of Blackstone in the Town of Mendon in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has resided in that vicinity ever since & I have resided in that vicinity ever since. I further testify that she has never been married since the decease of her husband, is of course now a Widow, & is the same person who signs the declaration hereto annexed. I am now in my Sixty Eighth year. Andrew Tucker
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations County of Providence
Off. Number 15 th Feb 1813
Then personally appeared the above named Andrew Tucker, who is well known to me as a credible Wit

ness and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him in my presence subscribed.
Before me. Christopher Robinson
Justice of the Peace.
I Sabitha H. Claflin of Mendon in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on my oath testify and say that I formerly resided in Marblehead in the County of Essex and State aforesaid and was well acquainted with Jeremiah Gatchell and his widow Elizabeth Gatchell having lived in their family and have frequently heard said Jeremiah Gatchell speak of his having served in the Revolutionary War, of having been taken by the British, from whom I have heard him speak of deserting, by swimming from their vessel and getting home again, after much suffering from want of food and clothing. I do not recollect the name of the vessel or vessels he was in. He died at sea during the last war; I was then a member of his family and was the first to hear of his death. I further declare that I have ever since been acquainted with said Elizabeth Gatchell and know that she is still a widow and has never intermarried since the death of her husband Jeremiah Gatchell aforesaid
Sabitha H. Claflin

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss. November 17th 1843 County of Worcester
Then personally appeared Sabitha H. Claplin who is well known to me and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed in my presence Before me Abel Wilder Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept 22 1813
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jeremiah Gatchell is found upon the Payrolls of the Brig Freedom, Capt John Cluett from Feb to Aug 4 1777 as a Seaman
This is the only service of the s d Gatchell that appears upon the rolls, in this office

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno. A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Honorable John H. Bolles — Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
The Petition of Elizabeth Gatchell, of Blackstone, in the County of Worcester, State aforesaid respectfully shows — that she is the widow of Jeremiah Gatchell: that her said late husband was a native of New Bedford in the County of Bristol and resided there in the War of the Revolution, and that according to the best of her knowledge and belief while he so resided there he performed the following named service in said War, to wit —
Several cruises in the Massachusetts State Brig Freedom in or about the year 1777, — of which Brig John Clowton was commander.
Also in much other Naval Service in said War, and among the rest she has reason to think he served in the Brigs Massachusetts, Tyrannicide and Hazard, but she is unable to state the dates or particulars of the services she has reason to believe he performed on board those vessels.
She therefore prays that you have will cause any Revolutionary Documents in your office relating to said Service to be examined, and that a Certificate of such facts as they may contain, touching the premises, may issue, to the end that she may obtain —

such relief as law and justice may afford.
(Sited at said Blackstone this twenty third day of August, A. D. 1843.
Elizabeth her Gatchell mark Witnessed by William his Mark Abel Wilder
State of Massachusetts } ss. Blackstone, Aug. 23 d , 1843. County of Worcester.
Then personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Gatchell & signed the above petition, & acknowledged the same to be her free act.
Before me, Abel Wilder Justice of the Peace.
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